Clipping:Defining an earned run; bases on balls are earnedor are they?
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| Date | Saturday, August 3, 1872 |
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| Text | “What is an earned run?” is a question of vital importance in estimating the true merit of a contest. For instance, a club might make 40 runes in a match, and earn only one; it becomes evident at once that their opponents must have made a large number of serious errors, and that they do not deserve the credit the ordinary base ball reporter would be apt to give them. What then is an earned run? In order to define this important point, we will take it first in its simplest form: A clean home run is an earned run. The batter who scores his run after a clean first, second, or third base hit, is entitled to an earned run, provided, that he is not carried around the bases by overthrows or passed balls (both of which are considered errors) and that three outs, (or the failure to accept three outs,) do not occur in succession, immediately after the batter has scored his run, by such overthrows or passed balls. Should the batter reach first base by a clean hit, steal second, and come home on overthrows and passed balls, such a run is not earned until the requisite number of clean base hits shall have been made to bring hm “home.” After the field has failed to accept three chances for “outs,” no runs can be considered earned. A base on called balls is considered an earned run if scored subject to the above provisos. Overthrows, in every instance, and passed balls, should be carefully noted, as by such errors, bases are given to the runners which they have not deserved. Thus is will be seen that fielding errors may allow a club to score any amount of runs, where proper play would not give them one. Earned runs are therefore the true estimate of the contest. Our brief analysis will give the public an opportunity to judge properly, and will show them that The All-Day City Item is a reliable authority on the subject. Evening City Item August 3, 1872 Upon reflection, a run on called balls should not be considered as an earned run, because it is sometimes obtained by the partiality or ignorance of the umpire, and because it is not earned by the player himself. Evening City Item August 5, 1872 |
| Source | Evening City Item |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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